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Probability and Random Variables Course Outline

The document outlines the course HEE-353 on Probability and Random Variables, which is a compulsory course with no prerequisites. It includes topics such as set theory, statistics, measures of central tendency, regression, sampling distributions, and probability distributions, along with recommended textbooks and additional readings. The course is structured over several weeks, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications.

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Probability and Random Variables Course Outline

The document outlines the course HEE-353 on Probability and Random Variables, which is a compulsory course with no prerequisites. It includes topics such as set theory, statistics, measures of central tendency, regression, sampling distributions, and probability distributions, along with recommended textbooks and additional readings. The course is structured over several weeks, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications.

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Course Outline

Course Code: HEE-353 Course Description: Probability and Random Variables


BOS Meeting Date: 2021-04-14 BOS Meeting Count: 10
Status: Active Is Lock: Locked
Course Outline:

Prerequisite NIL

Course Type: (Compulsory/Core/Elective) Compulsory

Z. Peebles , “Probability, random variables and random


signal principles “ Macgrahill 4th Edition
Text Book
Ronald Walpole Mathematical Statistics,3rd Ed

Papoulis and U. Pillai , “Probability, random variables


and stochastic processes” 4th edition
Additional Readings

Course Outline

Weeks Topic

INTRODUCTION TO SET THEORY PROBABILITY


21. Set theory
21. basic concepts of probability
21. DE Morgan’s Law
21. sample space and Events
21. Joint Probability
21. conditional probability
21. independent events
21. Total Probability
2 21. Baye's formula

STATISTICS

21. Introduction, Types of data & variables


21. presentation to data, object, classifications
21. Tabulation, Frequency distribution, Graphical representation
21. Simple & Multiple Bar diagrams, Sartorial & Pie-Diagram,
1 Histogram
21. Frequency Polygon, Frequency Curves & their types

MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION

21. Statistics Averages, Median Mode, Quartiles, Range


21. Moments, Skewness & Kurtosis, Quartile Deviation
21. Mean Deviation, Standard Deviation
2
Variance & its coefficient

CURVE FITTING

21. Introduction, fitting of a first and second degree curve


21. fitting of exponential and logarithmic curves
21. Principle of least squares
2
Second order Statistics & Time series not in bit detail

SIMPLE REGRESSION & CORRELATION

21.
21. Introduction, Scatter diagrams, Correlation & its Coefficient
21. Regression lines, Rank Correlation & its Coefficient
Probable Error (P.E), Related problems
1
SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS

21. Introduction, Population, Parameter & Statistic


21. Objects of sampling, Sampling distribution of Mean
21. Standard errors, Sampling & Non-Sampling Errors
21. Random Sampling, Sampling with & without replacement
21. Sequential Sampling

2 Central limit theorem with practical significance in related problems

STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

21. Introduction, Estimation, Types of Estimates


21. Confidence interval, Tests of Hypothesis
21. Chi-Square distribution/test, one tails & two tails
1
tests

PROBABILITY

21. Excellence Centers


1
21. Spin-offs

RANDOM VARIABLE

21. Discrete & Continuous random variables


21. Random Sequences and transformations
21. Probability distribution, Probability density function
21. Distribution function, Mathematical expectations
21. Moment Generating Function (M.G.F.)
2
Markove random walks chain/ Related problems

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

21. Introduction, Discrete probability distributions


21. Binomial, Poisson
21. Hyper geometric & Negative binomial distributions
21. Continuous probability distribution
2
Uniform, Exponential & Normal distributions & their practical significance

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